A Real-Time, Multimedia Social Network You Might Not Know: Paltalk CEO Jason Katz (Part 2)

SM: When you had your first IM client, who were your competitors?

JK: At that time AOL and ICQ were had the primary instant messaging clients. MSN, Yahoo and Skype had not yet entered the field. Of course, those IM clients were text only and did not involve a voice component like ours. >>>

A Real-Time, Multimedia Social Network You Might Not Know: Paltalk CEO Jason Katz (Part 1)

Jason Katz is the founder and CEO of Paltalk.com. Jason oversees the strategic direction of Paltalk and also manages the company’s system architecture. Jason is an authority on instant messaging as well as web based voice and video. Jason previously co-founded MJ Capital, a money management firm. Earlier in his career, he was a corporate lawyer at the New York City office of Fulbright & Jaworski.

SM: Jason, tell us about your background. Where are you from?

JK: I grew up in New York City in modest circumstances. Growing up in the city was not a great way for me to grow up because I like outdoors and sports. It was hard finding places to play sports sometimes. >>>

Catching Up On Readings: Changes Ahead For Solar Industry

Click on the full article to read more about changes for First Solar, SunPower, and all the other companies covered in this week’s posts.
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Personalized Alerts In The Enterprise: xMatters CEO Troy McAlpin (Part 7)

SM: You are in multiple markets. How big are those markets? What is your TAM?

TM: From our perspective the IT operations and service management TAM is somewhere between $600 million and $1 billion. The business continuity marketplace has a $1 billion TAM. We like our positioning in that marketplace because we have such a unique value proposition. >>>

Personalized Alerts In The Enterprise: xMatters CEO Troy McAlpin (Part 6)

SM: What is the hardest decision you have had to make as you were building this company?

TM: In 2004 I had to recognize that we still did not have the right product. That was the hardest decision I have had to make with this company. We started with the wrong product, customized it for Nextel, and then tried to take it to other companies. >>>

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Mark White, CTO Of Deloitte (Part 9)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Saurabh Mallik

SM: Or products, and people who may be able to provide technology to cloud vendors. One of the solutions could be that they provide is the segmentation of software or appliances. I think these are niche opportunities, but they seem like problems that need to be solved. >>>

Entrepreneur Journeys Book Review: Seeking Justice For Entrepreneurs

Wayne Hurlbert of Blog Talk Radio recently had a great conversation with Sramana Mitra about the role innovation plays in building a strong, vibrant economy.  You can listen to the entire interview here.

Also, from Hurlbert’s comprehensive review of Sramana Mitra’s Innovation: Need Of The Hour (Entrepreneur Journeys, Volume 4) for Blog Business World:

“For me, the power of the book is how Sramana Mitra combines her own ideas on innovation and entrepreneurship, with interviews of thought leaders in the fields of innovation and sustainable economic growth. Sramana Mitra seeks justice for entrepreneurs, who she considers the backbone of both innovative thinking and of the economy itself. For the author, speculators have gained too much while stifling and even actively discouraging innovative ideas from reaching the marketplace. That imbalance has brought the economy to its knees, she writes, and more risk and long-term thinking is needed to correct the situation.
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1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs On September 9

For entrepreneurs looking to discuss positioning, financing, and all aspects of a startup venture, this FREE online 1M/1M strategy roundtable will be held on Thursday, September 9, 2010, starting at: 11 a.m. EDT/8 a.m. PDT/8:30 p.m. IST. We hope you will join us and let other entrepreneurs know. You can find more details and register here.